Lot 94
£3,024
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
清 水墨百工圖冊 (共120幅一冊)
ink on paper, each leaf drawn with different occupations in Chinese society, in total 120 drawings
30.7cm x 30.2cm x 2.7cm
Private English collection
英格蘭私人收藏
With an old leaf attached to the inner page, reading: “Chinese, 120 Drawings of labour & pleasure from youth & old age, male & female, indoors and out. Said to be ‘all done by hand’. Inscribed: ‘1853 - Hong Kong.' Came into my possession in England (?), about 1900. Cecil Wedmore (?). April 1909"